The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-08
TnRILuna AND TRUE,

NtAD tsO6o
a Remarkable Social Complication
rot The Old Days Of Negro Slavery.
yt6phis Avalanche.
1.-THE Story which, with your per-
mission, I am going to relate, had real
men and women for actors, and is
aknown8t to all the old-time residents in
and around Louisville. It. presents
one ot the most remarkable compli.
cations Of old slavery times THAT ever
came within my knowledge. and ! am
not over young.
Fifteen or twenty years before the
breaking out Of u late civil war q
young girl in her teens came up from
Louisiana and settled in Louisville,
giving the name of Lizzie Carlton.
Nothing more was. known of
her than. that she was accom-
panied BY g young man who was,
Or who pretended to be, deaf and
dumb, and who, after aiding her to
secure q situation with Mrs. Will
Jams, 8 milliner and dressmaker on
Fourth street, returned at oncesouth-
ward BY river. Lizzie was Ia hand
some brunette with a wealth of raven
hair which almost swept the floor,
bright, expressive eyes, and altogether
genteel and disnifed in her general APP
pearance. Her ladyllke department.
and strict attention to the interests
Of her employer soon made her super
intendept 81 the establishment. So:
cial barriers were not so stubborn
then as. nov, and hence the young
and beautiful stranger was soon re-
ceived into the best society, forming
q number OF friends outside her regu-
lar business patrons among others
q Mrs. E.. a prominent men,
Der of the Baptist Church, at
whose ,house the dark-eyed beauty
wis q frequent visitor. Sine in time
attached herself to that church, be.
coming O. most exemplary member.
During her visits to Mrs. E.. our hero.
Inc met Philip S., himself one of the
pillars OF the church. who, after living
in single blessedness for years, enjoy
tngall alone his wealth and family sta
ton, soon conceived a tender senti-
ment fer the young and beautiful sis
ter. It was not long after the match
makers put their heads together till
Philip and Lizzie were made one. The
marriage ceremony took place at the
Baptist Church then standing on the
southwest corner of Fifth and Green,
the Rev. Mr.. Buck officiating, and
many old-timers living to this good
day will recall all the facts exactly as
/ give them. After the ceremony the
bride and groom and~tfeir friends re-
paired to Mr.. SIS residence, about ten
miles from Louisville, on the Bards-
town pike, where the usual wedding
festivities were enjoyed.
1.-THE HONEYMOON, withother moons,
dripping with honey 'sweeter than the
h~oney-comb,' waxed and waned. The
old bachelor happyin the new world
shat dawned before him; the young
Wife. with her back upon the past and
g memories, was even forgetting that
she had been n Woodworking milliner
in the struggle for bread.
"Alas, that ever mans avarice ind
brutality should break in to mar and
destroy a scene OF happiness like this.
About sunset one afternoon the door
bell rang. Lizzie-, now Mrs. S., lett
her husband's bedside The was con-
fined to his room by q slight illness at
the time. arranged her toilet, and de-
scended to the parlor.
zone piercing scream shat startled
the echoes aroused Mr.. S., who rushed
downstairs. What was his astonish-
ment to find his BRIDE fainting~ on the
floor, and a strange gentleman, at
tended by a uniformed policeman.
standing over her.
".Sir,' said che stranger, this wom-
an is my slave. Her name is Melinda
Cass. am a Louisiana planter; here
is the bill of sale. thought her a few
months before she escaped from my
home, and I have been on her track
ever since. and she must return with
me- r
1.-THE distress of the unfortunate
couple drew about them at once q
large concourse Of their friends, who
were as much at q loss whatto advise
in the midst of these strange revela.
lions as were the two most deeply
concerned. The husband, after the
first paroxysm of his grief and morti-
fcation, vowed eternal fidelity to his
wife. bond or free, and with the as
sistance Of Deacon E., Rev. MI. Buck,
and others, It wassarranged- that, in
order to quiet matters, the Louisiana
planter. should be idemnified for the
loss of his slave, and a little party Of
friends met together at the Calf
house, whers the Louisianian was
paid 500 Tor compensation and re-
turned home,
And this ends this strange. eventful
nistoryf'' asked che reporter.
"By no. MEANS The worst is to
come. Mrs., being a man easily in.
dnenced by his strong-minded rela-
tives. was SO beset by his uncles, his
cousins, his sisters, and his aunts,
that he turned his young bride out OF
doors. Thee could not tolerate even
q single drop ofsnegro blood, however
concealed by a fair exterior. The
poor deserted wife went heartbroken
from place to place in the capacity of
q seamstress. and soon gave birth to
Ia son. She managed to support her
self and child and bear up hravely
nndersAllshef misfortunes until Mr.. S.
married another..s This was more
than she could withstand, and, tax
ing to. her bed, she was kindly. attend
ed by the Sisters OF Charity and q few
aBaptistssisters III Louisville until she
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